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- BOSTON GATHERING - final detailsDecember 1
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TOMORROW (TUESDAY 2nd December) Drinks from 1830 and a meal for those who want to follow at around 1915-1930. Its half a mile from Harvard Square.
Location: Greg's Restaurant, 821 Mount Auburn Street, Watertown, MA 02472 tel 617 491 0122
If you are coming it would be nice to know, but its not essential. Post a comment to the blog today or if you decide tomorrow (Tuesday) send an email. Also for the avoidance of doubt, everyone goes dutch (i.e. buy your own meal and drinks)
- Boston GatheringDecember 1
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At very short notice (flights have been difficult) I have pleased to say that we will have a gathering over a drink and a meal in Boston MA (I would expect near Harvard or Kendal Square) tomorrow (TUESDAY) night. Details will be posted here later today
- We just forgot about it for a whileNovember 30
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The other major keynote at KM Asia was Nancy Dixon and it was good to meet up again after several years. The last conference we spoke at together was in Caracas along with Tom Stewart and others in a different age. She quoted Alan Webber of Fast Company who said: What’s new about the new economy is that work is conversation. Partly in order to provide continuity, but also as a part of a general theme I am developing that social computing takes on the form of an older oral tradition, I added my own codicil: It always has been, we just forgot about it for a while. This is important, its not that social computing creating some completely new form of human interaction, what it has done is to enable conversations across barriers and boundaries. We can now be a global tribe (or rather tribes), if we can make the changes that the technology permits. Given some of the conversations that ensued from my brief polemic on IT departments that change may not be easy!
- Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used toNovember 29
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Hat tip to Brian Sherwood Jones for this scary quote from Ron Suskind writing in the New York Times back in 2004 (the aide is from the Bush White House):
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Brian's note to me read as follows:
I put the quote below my signature into my outlook signature because it was so striking, and had made the observation that the Bush administration was essentially working in the chaotic domain. Then I read this in your complex acts of knowing, which took on a whole new meaning
We use the domain of chaos to disrupt in advance of need, in order to breakdown inappropriate or over restrictive models, combined with cons
- Tools for generalistsNovember 28
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Five examples from just one day in a RSS feed, one of the greatest productivity tools available for the curious generalist.
- The way you see yourself can influence your perception of pain here
- Internet communities around mental disorder here
- Price perception on wine tasting here
- Processing novelty in the brain here
- Blind people are better at spacial navigation here
Reported from the lounge in Singapore prior to an overnight to London